Originally posted by: Joseph_A
<font color="#0000FF"><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Yes ! We got some articles after that Award ceremony. He never mentioned this in his any interview. You can check this article n Pics.
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<font color="#333333"><font size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kalakar Awards 2009</font></font>
By TNN
Posted On Friday, January 22, 2010 at 04:06:02 PM
The 18th edition of the Prayag Kalakar Awards took place on January 17 at Science City auditorium,Kolkata.
Rituparna, Dev and Aftab
Bollywood
and Tollywood stars attended the event to receive their respective
awards for excellence in the field of cinema, television and
entertainment.
The event began on a somber note with the crowd
observing one minute of silence to pay tribute to ex-chief minister,
late Jyoti Basu. After a shlok from the Gita, and a hymn sung by Mousumi
Das, comperes for the evening Shakil Ansari and Sweta Ttiwari took the
floor and announced the inauguration of the Kalakar Awards.
The
Lifetime Achievement awards went to Ruma Guha Thakurta. Bollywood star
Aftab Shivdasani was welcomed by the audience with gusto for the best
actor award along with his Tollywood counterpart Dev for Challenge.
Rituparna Sengupta and Swastika Mukherjee received best actress awards
for Aaina Te and Brake Fail respectively. Goutam Ghosh won the best
director for Kalbela.
For television, the best actor award went
to Arjun Bijlani and his co star Mohit Sehgal, both popular as Mayank
and Samrat in the Star One serial Miley Jab Hum Tum. Laali of Agle Janam
Mein Mohe Bitya Hi Ki Jo (Zee TV) and Sandipta Sen for Durga (Star
Jalsa) received the best actress awards. For the year's best new faces
on TV, the awards went to Karan Mehra as Natik in the serial Yeh Rishta
Kya Kehlata Hai (Star Plus) and Tina Dutta as Ichcha for Uttaran
(Colours Viacom). Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chashma was adjudged the best
television serial for 2009. The Kalakar award for best channel award was
won by Aaj Tak.
The awards were punctuated by some scintillating
dance performances by dancers from Padatik. The highlight of the
evening however was a medley of five dance sequences interwoven to
create a spell on the audience by Indrani Dutta's dance troupe,
Shrishti.
The winners for the best playback singer award for
their work in respective Bengali and Hindi segments were Jojo for Mon
Mane Na and Rekha Bharadwaj for her chartbuster - Sasural Genda Phool
from Delhi 6. Asha Bhonsle's grandson Chintu Bhonsle claimed the Best
Album award for his album Sapne Suhane. Kolkata's very own Sanchita
Bhattacharya was declared best rising star. Sugandha Misra who won the
star entertainer award once again proved why she was such a hit at the
laughter challenge show when she regaled the audience with her
remarkable voice resemblance to Lata Mangeshkar.
The grand
finale was the Kalakar Achiever award given to Udit Narayan who humbly
accepted the award and at the crowd's request, sang several of his
chart busters including 'Papa Kehte Hain' and 'Jaanam Mit Gayee Dooriyan'.
<div align="center"><h1>Mohit Sehgal </h1><img src="http://i.imgur.com/hBcgriI.png" alt="" />
<h3><font size="2">Television actor Mohit Sehgal attends the 18th Kalakar Awards for
excellence in Cinema, Television and Entertainment, organised by the
Kalakar Parivar Foundation, at Science City Auditorium in Kolkata on
January 17, 2010. </font></h3>
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THANXXX.
CID
